Blog memes! I remember...

Anyway, memes can mutate, so here's my "default" app list. Stuff I use all the time, at least once a week.

• Mail Service: iCloud
• Mail Client: Apple Mail
• Spam Filter: SpamSieve
• Notes: Apple Notes (shared with Mitzi, and stuff that doesn't go in Tinderbox)
• To-Do: n/a (I don't do anything.)
• Calendar: Apple Calendar (formerly iCal?)
• Contacts: Apple Contacts
• RSS Service: n/a
• RSS Client: NetNewsWire
• Launcher: LaunchBar
• Cloud Storage: iCloud
• Photo Library: iCloud
• Web Browser: Safari
• Chat: Messages
• Bookmarks: Safari
• Read Later: Instapaper
• Word Processing: Pages (mostly to print a daily photo card to my mom)
• Spreadsheet: Numbers (not weekly, but at least monthly and whenever I have to)
• Presentations: n/a
• Shopping Lists: Apple Note (shared with Mitzi)
• Personal Finance: n/a
• Music: Apple Music
• Podcasts: Apple Podcasts
• Password Management: Keychain Access
• Social Media: Mona (Mastodon)
• Weather: Apple and Ambient
• Search: DuckDuckGo
• Code Editor: n/a
• Blogging: Tinderbox
• FTP: Forklift
• Photo Intake: Image Capture
• Photo Review: RAW Power
• Image Sharpening: Topaz SharpenAI
• Video Calling: FaceTime
• PDF Viewer: Preview
• Automation: AppleScript, Shortcuts, Automator, Hazel,
• POSSE: Micro.blog
• Retro Computing: Virtual II
• Backup: Time Machine, Backblaze
• Local File Management: Finder

There are a bunch of apps I use less often, like Topaz Gigapixel AI. Settings is always open in the dock. Activity Monitor too. Dictionary (to look up big words).

If I look at CPU usage and sort by CPU Time, Mail is the number 1 app, followed closely by SpamSieve. Finder is 3rd, then Activity Monitor, Tinderbox, LaunchBar, Notes, Backblaze, ForkLift, RAW Power, the photolibraryd process, Hmm... PopClip is in there too. And i use UnClutter as a clipboard manager and temp text stowage. Speaking of which, it's been acting weird under Sonoma. Stuff I expect to be on my clipboard isn't, so I have to be a little cautious. Could try using LaunchBar instead, but then I'd have to learn something.

Anyway, I use a lot of apps it seems.